Wichsenstein Castle

Wichsenstein Castle
Gößweinstein-Wichsenstein
Burgstall Wichsenstein – Ansicht des Burgfelsens über dem Dorf aus südlicher Richtung (März 2011)
Coordinates	49°44′17″N 11°16′03″E
Type	hill castle, summit location
Code	DE-BY
Height	587 m above sea level (NN)
Site information
Condition	burgstall (no above-ground ruins)
Site history
Built	vermutlich um 1100
Garrison information
Occupants	Bamberg ministeriales

Wichsenstein Castle (German: Burgstall Wichsenstein) was a hill castle, once owned by noblemen, on a steep and prominent rock reef (Felsriff) outcrop above the church village of Wichsenstein in the Upper Franconian county of Forchheim in Bavaria, Germany. The castle has been completely demolished and there are no visible remains. The castle rock is now just used as a viewing point.

View of Wichsenstein from the west

Location

The site or burgstall of this hilltop castle lies in the central part of Franconian Switzerland, part of the German Central Upland range of the Franconian Jura. It is located on top of a natural monument and rocky kuppe, the Wichsenstein Rock (Wichsensteiner Fels), at a height of about 587 m above sea level (NN) on the northern edge of the village of Wichsenstein, about 20 metres above the village and about 60 metres north-northwest of the Roman Catholic parish church of Saint Erhard. and about 15 kilometres northeast of Forchheim.

Literature

• Walter Heinz: Ehemalige Adelssitze im Trubachtal – Ein Wegweiser für Heimatfreunde und Wanderer. Palm und Enke Verlag, Erlangen und Jena, 1996, ISBN 3-7896-0554-9, pp. 244-257.
• Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: Eine Burgenreise durch die Fränkische Schweiz, 2nd edition, Palm und Enke Verlag, Erlangen, 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4, pp. 217-220.
• Hellmut Kunstmann: Die Burgen der südwestlichen Fränkischen Schweiz. 2nde edition, Kommissionsverlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch, 1990, pp. 244-248.

External links

• Burgstall Wichsenstein at Burgenwelt.de